The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-19
Washington Letter.

tions belonging in almost every case to
some other community. Now the Com
missioncrs with their new laws made by
| themselves, have reduced the town to the
| appearance of the enchanted woods that
led to the palace of the sleeping beauty.
But there is no sleeping beauty in this
| case, unless it be the President at Oak
View, who still remains there taking
things very quietly. The street cars of a
city are its characteristics and its signs OF
activity, but non are heard in Washing
ton. The bells are off all the horses, and
the street vendors of fruit and vegetables
are forbidden to cry their wares and anx-
ious ~housekecpcrs have to hang ont the
window on the lookout for the ice cart
whose afternoon visit eagerly looked for
during the warm spell of last month was
heralded heretofore by the linking of the
bells on the horses. The Commissioners
could help the business interests OF the
place vastly more if they would exercise
their surplus energies and INSTRUCTED zeal
in trying to devise some means of making
the Capital city as attractive in summer as
it is in winter instead of forcing Il set of
| arbitrary rules, which they arrogantly call
laws, upon an already m~uch-enduring com
munity. What VIC need here is some sort
| Of amusement and diversion in the sum
mer time. Clean streets and beautiful
parks are not sufficiently inviting to induce
strangers to come and tarry with us. We
must have people OF our streets and in the
parks. Instead of that the Commissioners
are driving away from the town by these
new ordinances, the large class of people
who constitute the majority in all great
cities. | refer to small dealers, who find
it impossible to make a living in Washing
ton on account of the heavy tax put upon
them before they can ply their trades, and
the restrictions they meet with in trying
to carry on their business. Take it all in
all, the Capital of the greatest Democracy
on the earth has the most autocratic gov
eminent in the world, aud all because Con-
gress that does not want to be bothered
with the affairs of the District of Column
bia, there being no citizen of the District
entitled to a vote, gives into the hands of
these men power over 200, 900 people that
the President of the United States does not
possess. There is but one hope for the
down-trodden citizens of Washington. The
Commissioners have got plenty of rope
and they may hang themselves, and by their
abuse of authority bring about a change of
or an Improvement in the present form of
Government.
Tie President will not leave Washing
ton until October it is authoritively stated
by his private Secretary, Col. Lamont.
The reports that he was to go on a fishing
| excursion with Senator Kenna, and after
wards to fetch Mrs. Cleveland home from
Massachusetts,, are incorrect. The Presi-
dent has had as his guests at Oak View, re-
Gently, William L. Scott, member of Con-
Gress, from Erie, Pa, and ex-senator Allen
G.. Thurman, OF Ohio. Mr.. Scott, it may
be remembered, was at the time of Mr..
Manning's retirement from the Cabinet,
spoken of as the probable Secretary of the
IlStSuIIs II Ii tbit biirtb MI DSOlO Wv
clined the position. Ex-senator Thurman
has been in Washington to argue an i'm
portant railroad case. He is in the best
of health and spirits and seems a~s''vigorous
as ever.
AS soon as the contracts for the building
of the new naval vessels are out, Secretary
Whitney will start for Bar IIarbor, Me.
If the United States Naval fleet, command
ed by Admiral Luce, is still at Bar Harbor
on the arrival of the Secretary, it is prob
able that the visitors at that resort will be
treated to some interesting naval exercises
and a review.
Secretary Bayard has returned from his
trip to the seashore and was at his desk in
the State Department last week.
Last autumn the President, moved per-
haps by the advice of physicians and
friends, decided that he needed exercise
and concluded that the south garden of the
White House was a suitable place to take
it in. Accordingly the gates of the south-
crn grounds were kept locked from four
o'clock in the afternoon to nine in the
morning, and the President, accompanied
by Mrs. Cleveland, was seen to pace
sJlemnly up and down the walks like Il
political prisoner Or a dcthroncd king.
The plan evidently did not work very well
for after trying it for three mornings only,
the President gave up his pedestrian eff
forts. But the gates have remained lock-
ell. Why, nobody knows. Tho south
garden has always been a t~horoughfare
and if the President don't want to walk
there himself, he may as well let those
that do. WESTON.
An excursion train for Niagara Falls, on
the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad,
composed of six sleeping cars, six day
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